Tuning and Maintaining Windows Server 2022

This chapter is designed to teach you considerations for server hardware and best practices regarding performance monitoring methodologies. Understanding the importance of a server’s role in a computer network and possessing knowledge of a server’s hardware components has two benefits: it helps with server hardware selection and troubleshooting server hardware-related issues.

Furthermore, this chapter will teach you server performance monitoring methodologies and procedures. Performance monitoring will help you identify the cause of server performance issues early. In that way, you will be able to react promptly to avoid further degradation of server performance. As for the server, the baseline represents a snapshot of the server’s performance under a typical workload, enabling the compilation of a detailed report about the server’s overall performance.

This chapter then concludes with an exercise on performance...